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Show PEACE TERMS C ermany s peace terms appear to be tak nj, ore or less definite shape To the a 1 es thej will appear arrogant and m i o ble but t s un versally under stood that peace terms when f rst formulated always conta n the max mum demands of the s de making the proposals If this be a correct c tenon for j dg ng Gem any s supposed pea e terms tl ej are not mmoderate The Wolff bu eau a Ge man concern has c rculated among German newspa pers a s mmary of an article from the Neue Zuer cher Ze tung of Zur ch Switz erland p rportmg to give the terms upon wh ch Germany s willing to talk peace The Assoc ated Press dispatch states the terms as follows The terms named inci de the res torat on of Belg an so ere gnty un de certain cond t ons no annexa t on of F ench territory the separa t on of Poland fron Buss a 'hs an ndependent kingdon under a Ger man pr nee the restorat on of all the German colon es the payment ot an nden n ty vhich wo Id aa sun e the forn of tran fer to Ger many of Euss a s indebtedness to 1 ranee amount ng to some IS 000 00 000 francs and the payment, for a term of vears of an annual con t b t on by Belg m eq al to the amo nt hitherto t..ent ann ally on the Belg an m 1 tary establ hment A s n lla contr b t on would be ex pected frou K s a or Poland th s 1 o nt not be ng clear in the ar t cle Wl ethe the Belgian terr tory wo Id be restored ent rely is not specified n the newspaper but it s stated that the co ntTv would be ! pol ced that s garrisoned by Ger n anv until the payment of the con tnb tions was ended and that nieas res would be taken to prevent Belgium from servin" as an nglo French outpost either bv treaty ar ranements or perhaps through pledges turned over to Cern any the latter phrase apparently referr ng to the retent on of the Mefuse fort resse A pecul ar ty of the proposals will- at once str ke the reader Nothing is said of "Serb a or of Italv s cla ms Tt is possible that Germanv wilf lea e these matters to A tr a but the all es must take the probab 1 ties into consideration If Austr a and Bulgaria have their way Serbia will never be reconst tuted The &erman offer to r,e establish the sovereignty of Belgium is sl big conces s?bn, for Pan Germanism demands and has long demanded that the Belgian coast shall be in Germany s possession so that England s control of the Engl sh channel may be terminated The proposal to make Poland an n dependent kingdom is alluring not only to Poland but to the people of Eng land and France Germany insists that a German prince be made the ruler knowing from the experience of this war how valuable a German prince on a foreign throne can be to the father lanl The demand for indemnities may or may not be serious If Germanv eoul 1 obta n all her other deman Is it is like ly that she would forego ndemnities |